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I did some experiment last weeks with my pickups. Some gave good result, some not.
First: SH-13 magnet swap.
-I love the SH-13 design, but i found this pickup lacking of Mids (1000-1500HZ)
What i did is swaping the ceramic magnet for a Dimarzio AL5 magnet.
The result is awesome, Less gain (a little bit) And a lot of mids added.
For me the best sound for a violent thrash metal play, on my rig, it gave me a LAMB OF GOD like sound, exactly what i was aiming to.
Just notice that you have to cut (and it's really not easy) 4 mm of the magnet because the stock SH-13 magnet is shorter than the PAF PRO one's.
Also the PAF PRO is thiner than the SH-13 magnet so i filled the gap beetween the magnet and the stainless steel blade with a 0.34 Daddario stainless steel string.
Really for those who love high gain pickups with a good amount of middle, it's a thing to try. I would never exchange that custom pickup for anything.
Second test: i tryed to do the same with an SH-13 in the neck, not bad, but i found my SH-4 better. trying to switch back magnet I unfotunately killed the north coil.
As i had nothing to loose anymore, i tryed to save the south coil.
As I had in stock an old EMG-SA1, i made an SH-13/EMG-SA1 Hybride.
It was hard, as the SH-13 coils are not made to be mounted on usual steel plates of conventional pickups, but te resule is impressive.
I used the north coil of EMG + South coil of SH-13, mounted on the EMG steel plate and the sh-13 stock magnet.
I'm using this pickup in neck position.
The result? Amazing clean with a tons of bass, a good presence. The sound is really deap and warm used with coils in series.
With paralleled coils, the eq is more flat, close to an SH-6 (bridge) placed in neck position at 3/4 of max volume.
Probabily the best Clean neck sound i had the chance to have.
It look like this when finished:
https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.n...59295953_o.jpg
Not really suited for high gain whit coils in series, it's good when coils are paralleled. It's also good for crunch, but with an high amount of distortion, there a a bit too much bass.
Anyway, I almost never use the neck position with hig gain... so now my guitar is mounter with SH-13 AL5 moded in the bridge, A Dimarzio Cruiser in middle and this EMG/SH-13 hybrid in the neck.
The best config i had until now.
That was not to show off, just sharing some sucessful experiments in case of someone would try it.
Notice that it's really risky to try the EMG/SH-13 Hybrid, The SH-13 magnet size perfectly feet for an EMG SA-1 (adjustable coil)/SH-13 hybrid, but you have to cut the SH-13 solder on the coil and solder those incredible thiny wires on the EMG mountong suface.
Sorry for weird english but it's not my mother language. Just want to share those things as the result is really good, a kind of "thank you" to all modder on this forum that inspired me in my rig experiments.
First: SH-13 magnet swap.
-I love the SH-13 design, but i found this pickup lacking of Mids (1000-1500HZ)
What i did is swaping the ceramic magnet for a Dimarzio AL5 magnet.
The result is awesome, Less gain (a little bit) And a lot of mids added.
For me the best sound for a violent thrash metal play, on my rig, it gave me a LAMB OF GOD like sound, exactly what i was aiming to.
Just notice that you have to cut (and it's really not easy) 4 mm of the magnet because the stock SH-13 magnet is shorter than the PAF PRO one's.
Also the PAF PRO is thiner than the SH-13 magnet so i filled the gap beetween the magnet and the stainless steel blade with a 0.34 Daddario stainless steel string.
Really for those who love high gain pickups with a good amount of middle, it's a thing to try. I would never exchange that custom pickup for anything.
Second test: i tryed to do the same with an SH-13 in the neck, not bad, but i found my SH-4 better. trying to switch back magnet I unfotunately killed the north coil.
As i had nothing to loose anymore, i tryed to save the south coil.
As I had in stock an old EMG-SA1, i made an SH-13/EMG-SA1 Hybride.
It was hard, as the SH-13 coils are not made to be mounted on usual steel plates of conventional pickups, but te resule is impressive.
I used the north coil of EMG + South coil of SH-13, mounted on the EMG steel plate and the sh-13 stock magnet.
I'm using this pickup in neck position.
The result? Amazing clean with a tons of bass, a good presence. The sound is really deap and warm used with coils in series.
With paralleled coils, the eq is more flat, close to an SH-6 (bridge) placed in neck position at 3/4 of max volume.
Probabily the best Clean neck sound i had the chance to have.
It look like this when finished:
https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.n...59295953_o.jpg
Not really suited for high gain whit coils in series, it's good when coils are paralleled. It's also good for crunch, but with an high amount of distortion, there a a bit too much bass.
Anyway, I almost never use the neck position with hig gain... so now my guitar is mounter with SH-13 AL5 moded in the bridge, A Dimarzio Cruiser in middle and this EMG/SH-13 hybrid in the neck.
The best config i had until now.
That was not to show off, just sharing some sucessful experiments in case of someone would try it.
Notice that it's really risky to try the EMG/SH-13 Hybrid, The SH-13 magnet size perfectly feet for an EMG SA-1 (adjustable coil)/SH-13 hybrid, but you have to cut the SH-13 solder on the coil and solder those incredible thiny wires on the EMG mountong suface.
Sorry for weird english but it's not my mother language. Just want to share those things as the result is really good, a kind of "thank you" to all modder on this forum that inspired me in my rig experiments.
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